BY P. GRAY MEEK. | INK SLINGS. —The Centre county taxes are lower : than they have been since 1905. | | —Only 78 days until Christmas. Itis time to begin looking around a little. —President WILSON and most of the | members of his Cabinet came out square- | ly for womans’ suffrage this week. | —Germany is almost down the tree | and only those who hoped the United States would become involved in war with her are'disappointed. —Automobile accidents are multiply- ing and the increase is due mostly to failure on the part of some drivers to recognize the other fellow’s rights on the road. —This warm weather is especially ap- preciated by the corn huskers. Sitting astride a shock of fodder with numb fingers isn’t the pleasantest work in the world. . —Laying politics aside we think that every man who can form a judgment. not swayed by party bias or personal an- | imosity will admit that the gentlemen who are aspiring to office on the Demo- cratic ticket in Centre county are better | equipped for the duties than their oppo- nents. 1 —The tax payers of Centre county haven’t forgotten the thirty year mort- | gage that was plastered on their homes | six years ago by incompetent manage- ment in the commissioners office. They know there is no incompetency there now and those of them who are wise will vote to make no change. ——President WILSON declared for Woman Suffrage and announced his engagement to Mrs. NORMAN GALT, a wealthy Washington woman on Wednes- day. And yet some people have mar- veled at the way in which he has hand- led the foreign diplomatic situation dur- ing the past fifteen months. —In twenty-five days the election will be here. There are some mighty serious questions for the voters of Centre county to consider in that time. The WATCH- MAN proposes to help them make up their minds by a fair and dispassionate presentation of each and every element that can properly enter into the discus- sion. We have faith in the good judg- ment of the voters of Centre county and we are going to put it to the test by ap- pealing to them purely on the: grounds of reason. .. —The man who pays taxes in Centre county will think a long time before he can make up his mind that it is wise to change control of the commissioners of- fice at this time. Messrs. NOLL and GROVE found the county overwhelmed in debt when they went into that office four years ago. They gave it a business-like administration .at once with the result that the debt is being wiped out rapidly while the tax levy is being correspond- ingly reduced. They assumed a great burden for the tax payers of Centre county and are entitled to the honor of being kept at their posts until they roll it away. —If every taxpayer in Centre county were to declare that the county’s busi- ness should be run just as carefully and efficiently as he runs his own, and then vote that way, there would be no ques- tion of the re-election of DAVID FORE- MAN, FRANK SMITH, FRANCIS SPEER, WIL- LIAM NoLL, DANIEL GROVE and the oth- ers who seek re-election. And, after all, why shouldn’t it be locked at in that way. They are men of the most experience. Everyone of them is the equal and some of them the peer of their opponents in the traits that go to make the character of men we believe should be chosen as our county officials. —Upon the occasion of installing him pastor of the Market Square Presbyterian church, at Harrisburg, Dr. MOFFAT said some things to Dr. GEORGE E. HAWES that were evidently designed as a gentle hint to the distinguished divine who re- cently left Bellefonte that politics and successful church work do not go hand in hand. While we recognize that there are a great many angles from which this question can be looked at we think we are quite within the truth when we say that in nearly every case where minis- ters of the gospel get mixed up in polit- ical controversies discord is sure to fol- low in their own congregations and their influence in the community at large has been lessened. —The highway department should is- sue a code of road rules when it issues a license to the driver of an automobile and it should enforce their observance by revoking the license of drivers who fail to observe them. Action of this sort would probably have the effect of reduc- ing the number of accidents because it would compel drivers to keep in their places on the highways. Within the last week we have had personal knowledge of four cases where serious accidents were only averted by a miracle and each one of them was due to unintelligent driving. We do not think that any of the cars in question were being reck- lessly driven. Merely that their drivers ran into pinches where they had no right to be and where the other driver had no ‘and express with just emphasis and : | stantial service, they felt it a duty, as it N STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL 60. BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 8, 1915. NO. 40. Veteran Heroes Approve the President. The veterans of the Civil war who at- | tended the encampment of the Grand | Army of the Republic in Washington last | week expressed their approval of and | pledged their moral support to President : WILSON with practical unanimity. Those ! : grizzled heroes know what war is and : : want no more of it. They are not afraid , to fight as their records show but they pre- | fer peace. Therefore they commend the foreign as well as the domestic policies of WooDROW WILSON publicly and privately | candor their detestation of those who are trying to embarrass him in his arduous work of administering the government for the good and safety of the people. The old soldiers were not in Washing- ton as partisans. They didn’t make their pilgrimage to the National capital to promote the political ambitions of any man. But as patriots who have earned the right to be heard by the most sub- was no doubt a pleasure to give the President the encouragement of an as- surance of their sympathy and support. And they did not underestimate the value of their action. The President was not only cheered but he was strengthen- ed by their spontaneous but none the less earnest words of approbation. It is the sort of moral support that braces honest and earnest men to their highest achievement. What the Grand Army veterans did is precisely what every American citizen ought to do. No President since LINCOLN has had such burdens to bear and no President since Washington has borne his burdens more uncomplainingly. In spite of the efforts of unpatriotic and sel- fish men to embarrass him he has follow- ed the even tener of his way fulfilling his obligations and performing his duties faithfully and courageously. The veter- ans understand these facts and appre- ciate them. They have seen the country in trouble and offered their lives to res- cue it from the danger it was in. They are no longer young and strong physical- ly but their moral force is unimpaired and it is behind the President. ——Italy may be making some pro- gress in her purpose to invade Austria but not enough to get on the front page. Still the Italians are persistent and it is possible that they are reserving their noise until some of that of the others has died out. : Silliest Calamity Howl. Probably the silliest calamity howl that has ever issued from the throat of any human being is that now freely indulged in by machine Republicans to the effect that at the close of the war Europe will dump surplus products upon the unpro- tected people of - the United States and submerge them under a tide of cheap goods. When the war closes, if it con- tinues much longer, Europe will have no surplus of any kind and the greatest scarcity will be in labor. They are Kkill- ing and maiming men over there at the rate of half a million a month and those who escape with their lives will have all they can do to produce food and cloth- ing for themselves. They will be im- porters rather than exporters. Even if it were true that after the ces- sation of hostilities the millions of Amer- ican people who are consumers would have an opportunity to feed and clothe themselves at lesser expense than that of recent years, it could hardly be re- garded as a great hardship. High prices benefit producers and burden the con- sumers and as the ratio is about one pro- ducer to fifty consumers it will strike the average mind that such a condition might be endured for a time without much just reason for complaint. The tariff tax on most of the products of Eu- rope under the UNDERWOOD law will pre- vent “dumping” to some extent and the anti-discrimination laws now in force will do the rest. There will be no dumping of the pro- ducts of pauper labor or of any other kind of European manufactures after the close of the war. In the nature of things all the belligerents, and that means all of Europe that is worth while, will bend their energies to the work of recuperation and instead of exporting the products of their mills and factories; they will be husbanding their resources for their own use and asking the United States to help them feed and clothe their crippled communities. The fellow who originated such an absurd calamity howl is out of place if he is at liberty. He ought to be in the custody of some well regulated institution for the feeble minded. ——There may be good germs asa’ medical authority asserts but they are An Appeal to Reason. What some of the no-license advocates of Centre county hope to accomplish by inaugurating a “sticker” campaign for a third candidate for President Judge of our courts we are totally at a loss to understand. They can scarcely deceive themselves into the belief that there is the slightest chance of the success of such a movement and such being the case we can ascribe no other motive to them than that of consistency. But are they consistent in undertaking such a movement? Are they not, Judge, fraught with such grave import jurisdiction. In short, they would then be in the who advocate it. at the primaries will vote for him at the tion, as he will. the election of such a candidate. by either of the latter motives. are to have license or no license. to have. not be an incentive, for the reason that in a contest of this sort. has both of these to an unusual degree. monwealth. ticket and votes cast for any candidate whatever, pasted or written on the ballot, at the coming election will be counted only as votes for that individual and not as a basis upon which to establish a percentage that might secure a regular ballot for the Prohibition party at the next election. All these facts being true it seems to us that there can be no purpose either | of principle or strategy to be served that is not overshadowed by the demand up- on every good citizen of the county to make his vote count to its fullest by voting for one or other of the two regular nominees. Personally we have nothing whatever to say concerning either Judge ORVIS or Mr. QUIGLEY. Most of you know both of them and are capable of forming your own conclusions. The personal element, however, should scarcely be considered What does count and count over and above every other consideration is judicial temperament and profundity in the law. Judge ORVIS rather, losing sight of their greater duty to the community? If the matter of license or no license were the sole issue involved then the case would have a dif- ferent aspect, but the disposition of licenses is a mere incident to the duties of a to every individual over whom he has If the burden of disposing of the license questions were not imposed upon our courts the no-license people would have no other interest in the present contest than to choose between the two candidates who have been regularly nominated. Under such conditions they would measure the qualifications of the men and give their votes to that one who gives the greater promise of a sincere, fair and effi- cient administration of the office in the interest of law, order and justice to all. same position as that occupied by the great majority of the voters in Centre county today. Happily the hopelessness of a “sticker” campaign makes a discussion of the equipment of the gentleman whom we are informed is to lead it altogether unnec- essary. The utter futility of such a movement alone should show its folly to those Certainly few of those who voted against the no-license candidate for Judge general election and it is equally certain that the two regular nominees will receive relatively as large a proportion of the vote that was not out at the primaries and that might be out at the general elec- Add to this incontrovertible fact the disadvantage the no-license candidate will be at because his name will not be printed on the ballot and we think any reasonable person will be compelled to admit that there is no hope of When there is no hope of election the only motives behind the candidacy of any person for any office are either an expression of principle, a political deal for the furtherance of the interests of another candidate or pure malice. We feel quite certain that our no-license friends are not knowingly actuated As we have intimated above we are inclined to the belief that the whole movement, if there be such, is predicated onthe question of principle. And again we ask the question: Are they not blinded to a greater duty by a misguided effort to express a principle. Everybody knows that there is not a true Prohibitionist in Centre county who would waver for an instant if his vote were the deciding one as to whether we But that is not the question. beyond peradventure at the primaries, when the no-license nominee ran third and had the support of many personal friends who voted for him for other than the principles he represented and who will not vote for him at the general election as a “sticker” candidate: ©. 7 4 a a Knowing then, as they must surely know, the futility of such a movement is it not THEIR GREATER DUTY TO WAIVE AN EXPRESSION OF PRINCIPLE AT A TIME WHEN IT CAN BE OF NO AVAIL and lend their energies to give to the courts of Centre county the very best judicial attainments that it is possible That was settled Even the matter of maintaining the integrity of the Prohibition party can- it is too late to nominate a Prohibition whether his name be He had both of them before he was elevated to the bench ten years ago and they have been developed during his dis- « tinguished service until now he is regarded as one of the ablest jurists in the Com- Game Protectionists Should be Consistent. The State Game Commission recently declared the counties of Blair and Indi- ana closed to the killing of deer and pheasants at the request of the Hunters’ and Sportsmens’ Game Protective asso- ciation of the two counties. Cambria has been a closed county for two or three years and all told there are now a half dozen or more counties in the State closed to deer and pheasant hunting, all closed at the request of hunters resident therein who gave as their reason an earnest rlesire to give the game a chance to propogate and increase. This action on their part is a very laudable one and merits commendation from all lovers of wild game, but if they desire to prove their sincerity in thus seeking to protect the deer and pheas: ants they will stay within the confines of their own counties during the coming hunting season and not go a hunting in’ counties not closed. Every year hunting parties from Blair, Cambria, Somerset and Indiana counties have spent from one to three weeks within the borders of Centre county and at no time have they exhibited any tenderness of heart when a majestic buck or a nice fat pheasant came within range of their guns. And Centre county hunters have never waxed wroth when they saw the invaders returning home with well filled game bags. But it does seem as if the same spirit of true sports- manship that led the hunters of the above mentioned counties to ask for a closed season there would cause them to hesitate and consider very deeply before not as active.as the other kind nor as presumption that they would be. prolific. they invade another county to help kill ! and destroy the game therein. | ——The death of Justice JoN P. | ELKIN is a cause of keen regret to a vast number of people in Pennsylvania to whom his charming personality had ap- pealed. He was more politician than jurist but he was an adroit lawyer and a stances. In political office he served his party faithfully but on the bench his serve the public with equal fidelity. ——The court reports show that Indi- ana politicians are “some pumpkins” in the art of ballot box stuffing but Pitts- burgh and Philadelphia has those Hoos- iers beaten to a frazzle. Such trifling frauds as those perpetrated in India- napolis never would have been found out in our metropolis. ——SCOTT NEARING’S successor ap- pears to be of the same mind as SCOTT Probably there will be another vacancy on the staff of the Wharton School and if the school were abolished no great pub- lic loss would be inflicted. ——The World's Series begins today and there will be a period of tense inter- est for the fans from Maine to California until it is ended. Of course we are all for Philadelphia but not sufficiently en- thusiastic to bet high on the result. ——Bulgaria may get a high price for are those of a cheap mercenary. ——Only one week more until the opening of the hunting season for small game. pleasant companion under all circum- | understanding of the law enabled him to with respect to some economic questions. | taking part in the war but her methods ' | A BUSY STREET. : aa | I love a busy, hustling town! 3 One day they put the paving down, | All nice and smooth and sweet; and then Next day they tear it up again, From one end of the street back to ! Its other end, that’s what they do; | And then they get it smooth and flat, i And give it its last loving pat, | And then there is a shriek of fear Y Comes from the city engineer— ; He has mislaid his monkey wrench! ! And instantly they start a trench And toss the pavement all around Until the monkey wrench is found! And then they tamp the dirt in tight, And get it levelled off all right, And surface it with hard concrete, | And make a street as is a street i By putting sand and brick on that, ' And the steam roller makes it flat, Then they pierce that pavement through and through To lay a line of pipe or two! Then they repair that, and it lies Smoothly beneath the summer skies For, it may be, a day or two: Then there's a sewer to run through!’ Now, when some one you chance to meet Talks of the “busy city street,” That’s what he means, in this man’s town, The street that’s getting up and down And rolling over that way, till It just seems like it can’t lie still. —Judd M. Lewis in the Houston Post. The War Order Boom. | From the Philadelphia Record. ! The results of the efforts of banking interests—if indeed any such efforts are seriously being made—to curb the wild speculation in ‘‘war order” stocks were faithfully depicted in a New York World cartoon the other day, which showed a furious bull madly plunging through Wall street, with a banker clinging to his tail in mid-air, the scene being tersely de- scribed by the line, “Putting on the Brakes.” Enormous profits are undoubtedly be- ing made by a large number of corpora- tions working on orders for munitions and other military supplies of varied ; character. In many cases these orders are “firm” —that is, they are not depend- ent upon the duration of the war. On the other hand, it is also true that spe- cial facilities have had to be provided by the interested industries, at great cost, for the execution of the work. Expen- sive plants have had to be erected, and costly machinery installed, for manufac- turing processes which are bound to be comparatively short-lived. The war or- der business is not a permanent uni i taking. When the war is over, a great ' many of these mushroom plants are ! going to be idle. Excessive profits will stop. The holders of stocks bought at ' highly inflated prices, which in some in- stances would only be justified by perma- nent business of the same volume as the present temporary undertakings, are going to be stung. Enhanced prices for the shares of in- dustrials participating in the war busi- ness for a reasonable phenomenon based on the sound judgment of investors. The { speculative element, however, has taken the situation out of the hands of the in- vesting element, and turns a deaf ear to i the warnings of sound finaneial authori- ties, who see in the war stock orgy a greater menace to general stability than in the complicated foreign situation. The infection of the gambling fever is hard to check. Victims of the disease see huge fortunes made almost over night through the soaring war stocks, and are tempted to adventure among the top- heavy industrials. These may not yet have reached the height to which it is possible to build without defiance of the law of gravity, but past experience teach- es that when they topple there is going to be death and disaster in the ruins. The remedy ought to be in the hands of the bankers, with whose money the speculation is promoted. If the orgy is beyond their control, as hinted by the World, it could be quieted by publicity. | The publication of the truth, from offi- cial sources, about the earnings and prospects of many of the war-order in- dustrials would have a salutary effect in ! affording a basis for reasonable estimates of their value. '. i ! Ploughshares and Absinthe. i - , From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. The changes which the Great War has ' made in the minds of men cannot be bet- | ter symbolized than by the insignificant incident of absinthe. The liquor was considered by Frenchmen and foreign- | ers alike to be the curse of Paris. To- day it is being turned to uses of war. i The important thing, though, is not ‘the change in France. That country is ' sufficiently hard put to it to go to any | extreme. The truly significant thing is that the world which was wont to praise, | with a deep sincerity, those who beat ' swords into ploughshares, will now praise those who distil absinthe into ammuni- tion. We have come to understand that war, when it is necessary, has its triumphs no less than peace. Right, You Are. From the Anaconda Standard. Theodore Burton, of Ohio, is a good man, but he’ll find it imposible to eradi- cate from the public mind the belief that he’d fall down if he ever attempted to Wobble around in Woodrow ilson’s shoes. ~ ——An important meeting of the Cen- tre county temperance league will be held in Petrikin hall Saturday, October 9th, at two o'clock p. m. All friends interest- "ed in temperance are urged to be pres- ent. For high class Job Work come the WATCHMAN Office. £3 ed SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Shortly after the threshers finished their work on the Perry county farm of J. P. Wilson the grain garner burst and wheat to the extent of 800 bushels was poured into the barnyard. —The discovery of a number of saws in the cell of James Miller, an inmate of the Greensburg jail, is believed by the warden to haye thwarted a plot of several of the prisoners, including some in for serious offenses, to escape. —The Dixon Run Land company has led the contract for 25 houses to be erected at Clymer, the total cost of which will be in the neighbor- hood of $30,000. The mines and brick plants there are being worked to capacity. —Citizens of Williamsport who are anxious to prevent the election of Jonas Fischer to the mayoraity of their city are endeavoring to per- suade Charles C. Krause to allow them to carry on a sticker campaign on his behalf. —Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust has given notice that no unloading of old or stale nuts kept over from last year will be permitted this fall. The nuts offered for sale must be fresh and State inspectors will get after the wormy chestnut dealer. —Alonzo Albertson, who lives at “Sunny Acre” farm near Hughesville, made a peculiar discovery late last week while working in a field near asmall stream. He unearthed 39 gold band rings, all of them being still bright and shiny. How the rings got there remains a mystery. —A large mill owfled and operated by Napoleon McDonald and located at Home Camp, Clear- field county, was destroyed by fire one afternoon last week involving a loss of $8,000. The structure housed four separate milling operations, having been used for a saw mill, planing miil, grist mill and cider mill. —Frank L. Johnson, a brakeman on the Renovo division of the Pennsylvania railroad, stepped in front of an approaching trainand was instantly killed. He was 23 years old. Johnson’s young wife, to whom he was married a month ago, is an inmate of the Lock Haven hospital, suffering from typhoid fever. —The typhoid epidemic at Shippensburg has already on its list 40 cases and several suspects. The state health department is doing everything in its power to check the advance of the typhoid wave, which gives every indication of having been caused by the water supply, although no statement to that effect has been definitely given out. —Having noticed that the milk and the news- papers had not been removed from the porch for several days. neighbors sent one of their number into the home of Mrs. E. M. Deiffenbacher, the aged widow of the Rev.C. R. Dieffenbacher, of Greensburg, and discovered that she was dead in bed. She had evidently been dead two or three days. —Henry Haase, the man who broke jail at Hollidaysburg, will not be returned to Blair coun- ty from Baltimore for at least four months. On Wednesday he was found guilty of larceny and sentenced to four months in jail. The Blair county warrant will be held as a detainer after he has served his time and then he will be taken back to that county. —Washington Camp, No. 855, Patriotic Order Sons of America, of State College, has presented each of the nine borough schools with a United States flag. The camp has also offered cash prizes of $5 and $2.50 to pupils of the High and grammar schools for the first and second best essays upon some historical subject to be selected by a committee from the camp. —Charles Pensinger, a young man residing in Westmont, has been arrested on the charge of burglarizing one of the McCrory stores in Johns- town. A box was taken containing $179.80 in cash. A youth named Swanger told the au- thorities that Pensinger wanted him to help in the burglary, but he refused. Later on Pensinger called him on the ‘phone and said he “pulled off the job.” The accused denies his guilt. —The State Board of Game Commissioners has in view the purchase of a 1,000 acre tract of the T. D. Collins estate in Forest county, which it will convert into a park for the 45 deer loosed there last spring and for 100 more which will be loosed this fall. The deer have caused some troublein the counties in which they were re- leased. Around Tidioute and Tionesta they were chased by dogs, as a result of which over 20 canines were shot. —Ora Mothersbaugh, of Tyrone, who sued the Pennsylvania Railroad company in the courts at Huntingdon, following an accident on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad near Mill Hall in which Mothersbaugh. then an employee, sustained in- juries that resulted in the loss of the sight of the right eye, was awarded the sum of $293, following a hearing held in Huntingdon last week. The jury brought in the result after a lengthy debate, being locked up for six hours. —The Ebensburg Inn, Cambria county’s noted summer resort, has closed it’s doors and put up its shutters for this season. The house had a very successful year, having all'it could accom- modate during the summer. I®is understood that Mr. and Mrs. R. Van Gilder, who have had charge of the Inn for the past two years will not return next summer. They intend giving al} their time to a hotel they have conducted in the East End, Pittsburgh, for some years. —No successor to Major General C. Bowman Dougherty, of Wilkes-Barre, as Major General of the National Guard, has yet been announced by Governor Brumbaugh, and it is not thought that the Governor will be in a hurry to name the Guard's head. In the meantime Brigadier Gen- eral Charles M. Clement,of Sunbury, commander of the Third Brigade, is acting Major General, as he is the oldest in commission of any of the brigade commanders. General Dougherty’s commission expired last Friday. —Coal operators are complaining of the scarcity of labor and in view of present market conditions and the promising outlook for the winter, some of them are making extraordinary efforts to in- crease their forces. The head of one of the largest operations in Cambria county states that he has not had a single application for employ- ment in the past several weeks. He attributes this condition to the fact that no new men are arriving from Europe and many have returned home to take their places in the armies of the Allies. —Held as prisoner for fifteen hours by a mining machine in the Ganagan mine at Arrow, Somer- set county, Thomas McCabe smoked and talked with his rescuers as they burned away the steel with an oxygen flame. McCabe was about to quit work, when in some manner his leg was caught in the machine and although the flesh was cut to the bone he was securely held. Inthe hope of saving the leg miners hurried to Johns- town for the necessary apparatus to cut away the steel and skilled workmen finally released him. He was taken to the hospital at Windber Friday morning, but physicians found that it was nec- ‘essary to amputate the leg. —The receivers’ sale of the personal property and real estate of the African Ostrich Farm and Feather company at Bloomsburg on Saturday, finally marked the end of the connection of the former president, W. H. Hile, the promoter, with the company. Wilkes-Barre stockholders, in a pool, outbid him on the three farms the defunct company owned, and got title as well as 56 of the company's 66 ostriches. Hile got the other 10. The highest price per pair paid was $1,000, this being paid for African birds, while American birds brought as low as $30 a pair. They were supposed, during the company’s prosperous days, to have had a total value of almost $1,000,000.
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